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Huge, horrifying story.

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

These people were radicalized by the right-wing anti-lockdown bullshit, which was funded by big money to reopen America for the economy. Their plot targeted one of Trump’s key political adversaries at the time. This is nothing more than Team Trump looking out for his Blackshirts.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

submitted 30 days ago • 443 comments

A true AI gem I found on TikTok: guy makes an appointment to see an apartment. Arrives. Is told he does NOT have an appointment. Pulls up his confirmation email, and discovers the appointment was made by an AI agent which just made up that he had an appointment.

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” he said. Not an antisemite. www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 33 days ago • 367 comments

can’t say tariffs are hurting the economy can’t measure the effect

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

Who was at the meme coin grift dinner last night. Cui bono?

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

In the hearing, plaintiffs pointed out that MSPB is adjudicatory. If they can fire MSPB, Trump can fired judges, the argument goes.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

DAN GREENHAUS, on the Moody’s downgrade: “.. The U.S. is running gigantic, peacetime deficits unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. As a result, .. in ten years’ time we’ll have $20 trillion more debt and that’s assuming nothing goes ‘wrong’ between now and then.”

submitted 40 days ago • 118 comments

they are really going for it with mass detention and that means concentration camps, that means mass deaths, that means plenty of citizens rounded up too, especially political dissidents. if you still can’t see where this train is headed idk what to tell you anymore

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office. If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.

submitted 34 days ago • 85 comments

Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?

submitted 35 days ago • 161 comments

“it would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits” www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

We need to bring back the ‘weird’ allegations you guys

submitted 36 days ago • 51 comments

50 Venezuelans now imprisoned in El Salvador "came to the United States with advanced US government permission, were vetted and screened before arrival, violated no US immigration law, and the US government turned around and 'disappeared' them without due process to a foreign prison."

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.

submitted 37 days ago • 46 comments

It's wildly unappreciated how insanely rushed this GOP megabill is. They're making major health care policy changes through private negotiations over two weekend days with no hearings, expert analysis, or public insight. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tak...

submitted 38 days ago • 37 comments

Indiana Governor Mike Braun, and his ‘Christian pastor’ Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith, just opted out of a federal program that would feed 700,000 children over the summer. It’s important to note Mike just had a helipad installed at his private residence on the taxpayers dime.

submitted 38 days ago • 124 comments

Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."

submitted 38 days ago • 296 comments

In the richest nation on Earth, 60% of families can’t afford a “minimal quality of life.” Absolutely unacceptable. We need to tax the damn rich and fully fund our basic needs programs. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

submitted 38 days ago • 201 comments

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

submitted 39 days ago • 71 comments

They found no fraud—just a new way to screw over retirees at Silicon Valley speed.

submitted 38 days ago • 477 comments

NEW from me — ICE is actively searching for job candidates with backgrounds in construction management and engineering via a third party recruitment agency. This comes on the heels of the @aclu.org uncovering ICE's plan to expand their detention facilities in 10 states. My report:

submitted 40 days ago • 138 comments

This is just not true. The majority view among researchers at this point is that work requirements do not work. There is a reason they do not cite a single study here.

submitted 41 days ago • 72 comments

Just catching up on the news

submitted 40 days ago • 311 comments

THIS. THIS. THIS. Anyone who works or has a background in intelligence will tell you how dangerous it is to politicize intelligence.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

CC @thedollop.bsky.social didn’t Gareth just do this bit like 2 episodes ago

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: “No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social @propublica.org

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

submitted 41 days ago • 122 comments

I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

AOC is really something else.

submitted 42 days ago • 19 comments

"I think it should be controversial to NOT say anything" about Gaza I spoke to YouTube star and children's educator Ms. Rachel about her outspoken support for Palestinian kids in Gaza - and the bad-faith attacks on her in response. Full interview here: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 44 days ago • 83 comments

Lipton is looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope. A student who brings me a fancy gift on the day of the final may or may not be engaging in a corrupt act. But if I ACCEPT that present, whether I change their grade or not, my acceptance of the gift is corrupt.

submitted 44 days ago • 31 comments

“…kids should die from measles.” - the secretary of health and human services

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

This part

submitted 46 days ago • 848 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 46 days ago • 870 comments

Imagine buying what she’s selling here

submitted 46 days ago • 92 comments

Ok … make that zero dolls.

submitted 46 days ago • 23 comments

To think the other possibility was prison.

submitted 47 days ago • 85 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 47 days ago • 629 comments

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

submitted 47 days ago • 225 comments

UM-Health is buying up all the Michigan hospitals, making them more expensive, reducing their community donations, and then taking people to court over medical debts as low as a few hundred dollars. This feels unethical to me. www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments